The Presidency has stated that President Bola Tinubu’s focus is how he can bring shared prosperity to Nigerians and not the 2027 election.
The clarification was made by the president’s Special Adviser on Media and Public Communications, Sunday Dare, in an X post.
Dare’s statement comes amid mass defections, most notably that of former Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai, who dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
Political analysts also anticipate that the defections are part of a larger plan to form a coalition to challenge Tinubu and the APC in 2027.
But according to Dare, Tinubu is more concerned about how his reforms will yield results and how the economy will fare.
“President Tinubu is not worried about the next election. He’s worried about the shared prosperity that he can bring to Nigerians.
“He’s worried about how the reforms he has put in place will yield the necessary impact. He is concerned about what happens to the economy of this country eventually. That’s the focus.
“We’ve seen our foreign reserves go up. We’ve seen inflation come down. We’ve seen our trade surplus go up. We’ve seen exports go up and imports drop.
“We’ve seen the investments that have been attracted -over 50 billion. We are seeing prices dropping.
“We have clear data and you have a President that is clearly in the driver’s seat, and he has stayed the course of the decisions he has taken.
“And I think that the next election is not really in his view right now.
“It’s how to make sure that at the end of his first term, he can sit back and say, look, “I have impacted the lives of Nigerians. I have turned this economy around,” the post reads.
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